The order follows a report by The Bee on Wednesday that Caltrans agreed to pay a public relations company nearly $10 million for work on the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, including hundreds of thousands of dollars to conduct tours and produce a video and commemorative book. [Acting Agency Secretary] Kelly ordered the contract’s cancellation after The Bee requested documents related to it.

Maybe it’s a good thing that the BT&HA wasn’t one of the boxes that Schwarzenegger planned to blow up –they actually saved us some money. Perhaps the OCTA Board can do the same and cancel the re-bidding of the flak’s contract that former OCTA Director Pringle managed to convince them to do.